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Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 1990 Cochise College Llnrfes Douglas, AZ 866a7 The Cochise Quarterly Volume 20 Number 1 Spring, 1990 TABLE OF CONTENTS Douglas Airman Survives 2,000·footFall . .. 3 Training at Douglas Army Air Field by Don J. Armand 6 History ofTenth Street usa, Douglas. .. 19 Mexican Crustals: A Douglas Contribution To The War Effort by Lewis Orrell. ............................... .. 23 Book Reviews by Cindy Hayostek 47 Aboutthe cover: Thesecrystals ofoptical calcite, which probably were from the Iceberg deposit near Dixon, N.M., were photographed in 1940 by Bausch & Lomb. The depositwasbeingminedby Dr. Edwin Mcintosh Stanton, Jr., who later moved his operations to Douglas. For the story, see page 23. (Bausch & Lomb photo) Contents of THE CaCmSE QUARTERLY may not be used without the permission of the Cochise County Historical and Archaeological Society. P.O. Box 818, Douglas, Arizona 85608-0818 ISSN 0190-80626 DOUGLAS AIRMAN SURVIVES 2,OOO·FOOT FALL Editor's Note: This article is printed almostverbatim from a U.S. Army news release thatis in the filesofthe Cochise County Historical Museum in Douglas. BUSHNELLGENERAL HOSPITAL, Brigham City, Utah -Sgt. Albert W. Vawter of Douglas, Ariz. plummeted 2,000 feet to the earth when his parachute failed to open after he jumped from a smashed Flying Fortress during a bombing mission over Germany this April. End ofthe story? No. Sgt. Vawter, a 36-year-old gunner, is still alive. He is now receiving medical care at Bushnell General Hospital for his multipule injuries, including the partial amputation ofhis right leg. A ball turret gunner, the Arizonan was on his seventh mission. During a raid Apr. 7, 1945 on rail yards at Luneburg near Hamburg, Vawter's B-17 was hit by an attacking German fighter. "The Messerschmidt was coming in at us when one ofthe other gunners hit him in the wing. The plane went out ofcontrol and crashed into us near the tail, cuttingthe tail right offour ship," Vawter explained. When he saw the collision, Sgt. Vawterbegan to prepare to jump from the ship, which at this time was flying at 19,000 feet at the start of its bombing run. In the single minute it took him to rip offhis oxygen mask, slip into his chest parachute and turn the ball turret over preparatory for jumping, the big ship was out ofcontrol and had started its death spin. Four of the crew members managed to get out, however, before the Fortress started its spin. As the ship started its downward spiral, Vawter struggled to reach the open end of the turret but centl'ifugal force flung him back to the bottom of the plane and away from the escape hatch. "Finally, by inching my hand along the turretfloor I managed to grab the edge of the door," he said. Then with desperate efforts, he pushed and kicked his body until his second hand had a grip on the doorway also. Vawter then squirmed until his head and shoulders were free of the plane. The terrific pull ofwind yanked his body from the ship like the core slips out of a banana. Sgt. Vawter took a quick look below - it seemed about 2,000 feet to the ground. He had fallen nearly three miles straight down since the ship had started its spin. He fell free from the ship, end over end, and pulled the rip cord ofthe chest chute as soon as his feet were pointed downwards. He felt elatedas the silkbegan to stream upwardsby hisface andVawter sethis body for the shock ofthe opened chute. But nothing happened. "I looked up," he said, "and the silk was just streaming straight in the air." In those few seconds he was falling bullet-like beneath the unopened chute, the Arizonan struggled frantically with the shroud lines. Even as he tore feet first into the earth, he still was working the lines, still looking up at the long useless silk streamer. When he hit, he was knocked unconscious. As Vawter recon- structs it, he hit feet first and then jacknifed over face first. He landed in a plowed field; the freshly dug rows were just cushion enough to save his life. "I wasn't out very long," he said. ''When I came to the plane was crashed about 150yards away andburning. As I laythere in the dirt, the bomb load we hadn't dropped began to explode." Then some ofthe black-uniformed S.S. troops arrived. One ofthe officers walked around the Arizonan. "He called me 'swine' and then spit at me," Vawter said. Another officer drew a gun. The Arizonan, so miraculously spared moments before, thought that this really was the end and waited for a final shot. But the shot never came. Some German air corps men arrived and, after argument, took charge ofthe Yank. One ofthe air corpsmen removedVawter's chute con- tainer and placed it under his head. Another gave him a drink of water to help remove the mouthful of dirt he'd gotten when he landed. Looking around, Vawter found he had buried himself two feet deep into the earth. Although he "landed" about noon, it was 5:30 in the afternoon before the Germans moved him. Instead of an ambulance the Germans used a horse-drawn hayrack. Sgt. Vawter was placed atop the load and covered with his chute. "The air corpsmen were afraid the civilians would kill me ifthey caught me," he explained. "They went through Luneberg to the hospital as fast as they could." That night his leg was amputated. On Apr. 22, British troops rolled into Luneberg and liberated the Yank. A veteran of army service since Sept. 1942, Sgt. Vawter is married. His wife, the former Arnette Stuppi, lives at 1160 10th St., Douglas. Sgt. Albert Vawter of Douglas, Ariz., survivor of a 2,000 foot fall beneath an unopened parachute when his Flying Fortess was shot down over Germany, shows WAC Pvt. Margaret E. Pakala, Blue Island, 111., a souvenir from Germany at Bushnell General Hospital where he was apatient. Sgt. Vawterwas miraculously saved when he landed in a freshly plowed field and was recovering from multiple injuries. (U.S. Army photo) TRAINING AT DOUGLAS ARMY AIR FIELD By Don J. Armand Editor's Note: On Oct. 1, 1943, Don Armand arrived atDouglas Army Air Field for advanced pilot training. He had already completed eight months oftraining atbases in Hemet and Merced, California. The Douglas field was begun in the spring of 1942 and graduated its first class in January, 1943. A large number of pilots, including many from Nationalist China, underwent training here before the base was closed in 1946. Douglas was a small town located in the southeast comer of Arizona, and about as close to the Mexican border as you can get. If isolation was part of the criterion for selecting locations for training bases, then Douglas was a good choice. The nearesttown ofany size was The smokestacks of the C & A Smelter provided a fine landmark for pilots like Don Armand during training at the Douglas Army Air Field. (Courtesy Don Armand) 6 Tucson, some 100 miles to the northwest. So for the advanced Aviation Cadets stationed at Douglas, there was little to distract them from their training. The air field was located a few miles north of town and was another typical wartime base with mostly tarpaper buildings and bar- racks. The field itselfconsisted of ronways instead oflarge mats as we had at Hemet and Merced. It was located in a reasonably flat valley with mountains to the east and west. The elevation of the field was around 4,150 feet and the mountains varied mostly between 6,000 to 8,000 feet with some peaks goingup to around 9,500 feet. You learned to pay close attention to your altitude when flying here, especially at night. One landmark I remember very well from that area was the C and A Smelter, located near the town. It was a fairly large complex of typical plant buildings, but the thing that stood out were the smoke stacks. There were three or four of them, rather tall, and they belched smoke constantly. The weather here was usually good and that smoke could be S"een from a long way off. The cadet barracks were aboutthe same as those atMerced, with rooms either side ofa center hallway. The latrine was at one end ofthe building and followed the usual pattern. We still had to keep up our quarters and inspections were a regular thing. Even though we were in advanced trainingand not too far from being commissioned officers, we were still Aviation Cadets. The tactical officers who were over us made sure we always remembered our position. They were a pretty decent bunch and as long as you kept to the business at hand, you had no problems with them. Each day was still divided in two; half for ground school and athletics, inc1udingdrill, and the otherhalfforflying. The ground school subjects included aero-equipment, aircraftrecognition, naval identifica- tion, bombing and armament, medical training, navigation, meteorology and code. Our instructors in ground school were mostly commissioned officers who were not rated (pilots), but we did have one who wore pilot wings. He taught navigation and was somewhat older than most of the others. We wondered about this until someone found out that he was a pilot in World War I. Though he was considered too old to fly in World War II, he could still instruct in ground school. As I remember, he was a very good instructor and was popular with the cadets. Our training in weapons handling continued with firing a specified number of rounds using the Thompson sub, Colt .45, .30 calibercarbine and skeet.
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